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Military technology

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden indicates shift in Ukraine’s deployment of Storm Shadow missiles

    Washington had feared that using weapons risked escalating conflict with Russia

    Tornado GR4 aircraft carrying two Storm Shadow missiles under the fuselage
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    US foreign policy
    Biden administration split over Ukraine’s use of US weapons inside Russia

    Pentagon and intelligence community caution against deployment of ATACM missiles by Kyiv

    Live misslie testing
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    ExplainerWar in Ukraine
    Why Ukraine’s allies are divided over deep strikes into Russia

    UK has pressed US to back Kyiv’s use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory

    FT montage of illustrations showing missiles and drones
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How all-out war between Israel and its adversaries might play out

    Military capabilities of the Jewish state have evolved since it last fought Hizbollah but so have those of the Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’

  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

    Investment in maker of ‘low-cost cruise missiles’ a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting stance towards the arms industry

    The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Visual story
    Ten days that turned the tables on Russia

    How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader

  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    News in-depthSingapore
    Singapore boosts ‘poisonous shrimp’ defence as US-China tensions rise

    Geopolitical risks and emerging cyber threats push city state to rethink traditional security stance

    A Singapore Air Force Chinook helicopter carrying a Singaporean flag is escorted by Apache helicopters during a fly-over to celebrate the country’s 59th National Day in Singapore on August 9 2024
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israel braces for biggest test of air defences from Iran-led attack

    Israeli officials expect huge test for multi-layered array that includes Iron Dome to come in days ahead

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Anduril Industries
    US defence tech start-up Anduril raises $1.5bn at $14bn valuation

    The funding, which was co-led by Peter Thiel’s VC firm, will go towards production of autonomous weapons for America and allies

    An Anvil-M drone at Anduril’s headquarters in California
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Chinese military
    Russia and China fly joint air patrols near US for first time

    Manoeuvre marks further deepening of military co-operation between Moscow and Beijing

    A Tu-95 strategic bomber of the Russian air force is refueled in the air during a join Russia-China air patrol
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Type of Russian missile that struck Kyiv children’s hospital uses western components

    Kremlin has turned to microprocessors and other technology not intended for military use to skirt sanctions

    A montage of photos of components of the Kh-101 missile and the aftermath of a missile strike
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Amazon Web Services
    Amazon to build $1.3bn Australian defence cloud

    Deal aims to improve data sharing with allies including UK and US

    From left, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walk underneath the flags of their countries at a meeting of the three leaders in San Diego
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Helsing
    German AI defence start-up Helsing poised to triple valuation to $4.5bn

    Silicon Valley investors Accel and Lightspeed part of latest fundraising round talks that would raise almost $500mn

    Person looks at computer screens showing military operations
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Cut-price anti-drone weapon could be ready next year

    The Thales-led radio frequency directed energy weapon is being field tested with the UK military over the summer

    Graphic of a navy vessel firing a laser beam at a drone
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Chemring Group PLC
    Chemring predicts decade of rearmament as conflicts drive record orders

    UK defence group says larger contractors are seeking longer-term supply agreements

    British and Ukrainian soldiers taking part in a field training session in England
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Visual story
    The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan

    Five key military contests are likely to determine the outcome of a conflict

  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life

    Military activity blamed for surge in jamming and spoofing incidents affecting smartphones, planes and ships

    Montage of a plane, a ship and a phone
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Jacquelyn Schneider
    How missiles became the modern weapon of choice

    They rarely bring outright victory but can help anti-western actors raise costs for the US and its allies

    A ballistic missile lies on the shore of the Dead Sea, after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel in April
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Marietje Schaake
    Military is the missing word in AI safety discussions

    Government attempts to regulate the technology must look at its use on the battlefield

    Image of IDF solders seen from behind standing on a roof and looking down
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine

    Biden had previously held back Atacms system out of fears of escalating war with Russia

    Atacms being fired on a US Army test range
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia threatens to step up attacks on western weapons in Ukraine

    Russian defence minister reacts to US passage of military aid as Kyiv’s forces struggle to hold frontline positions

    Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu visits an armaments factory in Russia’s Omsk region last week
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    World
    Conflicts drive global military spending to record high

    War in Ukraine and tensions in Middle East and Asia lead to 7% increase in worldwide defence expenditure, says think-tank

    Chinese sailors on parade in Qingdao, China
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How Israel’s defences repelled Iranian missile and drone attacks

    ‘Multi-layered’ array deployed included early warnings and Arrow system that intercepts long-range projectiles

    A drone being launched
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    FT Magazine
    How Silicon Valley’s ‘Oppenheimer’ found lucrative trade in AI weapons

    Anduril Industries’ Palmer Luckey is leading the start-ups infiltrating the US government’s war machine

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    Thyssenkrupp AG
    Thyssenkrupp in talks to sell naval unit stake to Carlyle

    Investor interest in European defence businesses picks up amid growing geopolitical instability

    The submarine U17 is loaded onto a floating pontoon from the dry dock at the thyssenkrupp Marine System shipyard
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